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MDMAlliance on 22 June 2014
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BraLoD said:
MDMAlliance said:
BraLoD said:
I think people are not getting the point of this thread, the OP asks for the number of sales a consoles need to not be considered a failure.
That have nothing to do with money, he's asking about the market view, what number people will look and say: that console was/wasn't a failure.
Just like we point to the GC and say it failed because how badly it sold compared with the PS2. Or to PSV with the 3DS, and the likes.
That's what I understood he want to be answered, if not, pretend I posted nothing here xD


To be honest, if that's the case then there's really no point in asking.   
Most of the "market" (by market it seems like you're talking about consumers) don't care about the numbers.  

Why not? People always wonder what others consider being a failure around here, as some states the PSV and NWU are/will be failures and will sell low, I don't really see people asking themselves if the consoles are bringing profit to the companys, only if they can reach certain numbers against the competition, it's all about winning or losing in sale numbers, this site is meant to provide data to this. (or try to provide data...). So he is just curious about what is the number people take for a console being a failure or not, not to the company itself, to the market view.
(And what would be the market if not the consumers? They buy, they consume, they are the market to what the companys sell).
Again, if it's not the case, I posted nothing xD

I was going based off of your wording about how the "market" views it.  Your post was pretty much using the word "market" to mean the "consumers."  While people on this site ARE consumers, consoles will sell regardless of our presence.  We are NOT the majority who buys consoles.  The majority of people who DO buy consoles do NOT care about numbers of consoles sold.  Their view of whether or not a console is a success or failure tends to be on their personal enjoyment of the console. 

 

And the reason why profits matter are the exact same reason why numbers matter when you ask someone who ISN'T the company about it.  Why do consumers care?  That same question goes back to why consumers should care how many units a console sells, and the answer for why they should will be the same.

On this site, what SHOULD matter is if those sales numbers are meaningful.  If you sell 10m copies of a piece of software, but you make a net loss on the game, can you really say the game was successful?  Same goes for consoles.  Just because a niche game doesn't sell 10m doesn't mean it's a failure.